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Clipped vs Snappy - What's the difference?

clipped | snappy |

As adjectives the difference between clipped and snappy

is that clipped is having an end cut off; trimmed or cut back while snappy is (label) rapid and without delay.

As a verb clipped

is (clip).

clipped

English

Alternative forms

* clipt

Verb

(head)
  • (clip)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Having an end cut off; trimmed or cut back.
  • (of speech) With each word pronounced separately and distinctly.
  • (informal) Circumcised.
  • * 1999 , Ben Edward Akerley, The X-Rated Bible: An Irreverent Survey of Sex in the Scriptures , Feral House (1999), ISBN 9780922915552, page 102:
    • After all, Jehovah had instituted the rite of circumcision in which the clipped penis became consecrated to him,
  • *

    • Synonyms

    *(circumcised) see also .

    snappy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (label) Rapid and without delay.
    • (=hurry up)
  • (label) Irritable.
  • (label) Tidy; well-dressed; sharp.
  • Chilly, brisk, sharp.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=The day was cool and snappy for August, and the Rise all green with a lavish nature. Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet:

    Synonyms

    * (rapid and without delay) fast, immediate, quick * (irritable) irritable, peevish, testy, tetchy

    Derived terms

    * make it snappy